Paleoconservative Observations

Tough News Week

Now I know about the Chinese Curse, “May you live in interesting times.”

Japan is having a storm-after-the-storm in the form of a nuclear meltdown. It is terrible; my brother is serving on the USS Essex dealing with this now. The radiation and associated exclusion zones create all manner of obstacles to US assitance to this long-term ally. That said, Japanese are behaving admirably, proof that diversity (particularly imported Third World diversity) is completely unnecessary and in many ways counterproductive to a healthy, functioning, and technologically advanced society. Indeed, homogenous societies are often more trusting societies, particularly when they have a high level of civilization. Of course, Iowa and the Gulf Coast of Mississippi had massive flooding in recent years and didn’t have massive crime and looting like New Orleans, but, the last time I checked, they’re not Japanese colonies in the Americas.

Dayton, Ohio police test was thrown out because it “discriminates against” blacks. Of course, nearly every academic and performance test under the sun discriminates against blacks in the sense that their average performance is worse. Does a test that measures something useful where the outcome happens to differ between races mean that it is unlawfully discriminatory? Why assume that? Does whatever test that selects for NFL running backs discriminate against whites? And, indeed, can a test that found its origins in the days of genuine anti-black racism, that is a test designed to distinguish qualified from not-so-well qualified whites be called discriminatory when it is simply imported into a new, race-blind era and has differential outcomes between the races? Indeed, such a test should be presumptively acceptable. As a consequence of this and similar rulings, police standards will be lowered in name of diversity, as they have elsewhere, often with disastrous results.

Now the US military announces priority of diversity. What a friggin’ shame, a harbinger of America’s accelerating decline. The broad-based war on standards has been in process since the Tail Hook Scandal, but it’s accelerated in recent years. As in police and fire departments, this stalwart bastion of excellence (in addition to being a realm where blacks and whites work well alongside one another because of uniformly high standards) will find to increasingly common to have the affirmative action promotions that are all-too-familiar to corporate America and municipal government. Over time, and just as bad, the integrity of the entire institution and its leadership will be degraded, because no one is allowed to speak freely about the lower abilities of minorities in a world where equality of outcome is a priority.

Indeed, it’s not as if there’s not plenty of dumb whites to go around. More testing would eliminate many of them too, but this is not allowed (or only allowed indirectly) because of the law of disparate impact. Liability concerns are compounded by a liberal status war among whites, where each side accuses the other of racism–as in the “Democrats are the real racists” meme so common among the GOP. Today, unlike the America of only 20 years ago, hardly anyone stands up for fairness, majority rights, excellence, and the condemnation of widespread bad behavior by minorities. We are becoming a nation of cowards, indeed, but not quite the way Eric Holder thinks.

Finally, Libya’s Kaddafi is winning. I can’t say I’m losing any sleep over this, other than the impact it has on gas prices. As in the Sino-Vietnamese War of 1979, I’m not really sure why I’m supposed to root for one side or the other. For all I know, Qadaffi’s opponents are bastards; there’s no evidence one way or the other. Sen. McCain, meanwhile, wants us to get involved and start bombing, and he also says his long term goal is to be “investing in Libya.” I’m so glad I didn’t vote for that madman*, even though Obama is a disaster in his own unique way.

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Unfortunately, it’s true. Whites – and, in particular – white men have become cowards. Sure, there are plenty of brave white soldiers, cops, etc., in terms of individual behavior in the face of tangible, imminent danger. But as a group, we’ve lost something – and that something is what makes you a people.

For example, many of my friends and neighbors agree with me that minorities generally have lower IQs and that this leads to some serious problems. They agree that immigration should be severely curtailed because it threatens our culture and will cause more of our country to resemble Brazil. They’ll admit in private. But the other night, I was at a dinner party, and the issue of racism came up. I mentioned that, of course, there were differences between the races. I didn’t claim superiority or that other races should be killed or deported. I just stated the fact that races do exist and that they have different characteristics, one of which is IQ, and those differences have major implications.

Well, not surprisingly, I was hammered by a couple of liberals in the room, who, by the way, were in the minority. Did any of the others who agreed with me (indeed, we often more militant in their beliefs) speak up. No. They let me hang. The result being that anyone who might have been on the fence on the issue now knows to push those thoughts deep, deep into their brain where they will never be seen again.

While a little annoyed, I wasn’t surprised. Men who are willing to literally get into a physical fight are unwilling to stand up for their beliefs – beliefs that could save their own people.

When I was a kid and learned about the white settlers slowly taking over North America, I thought that the Indians should have fought back harder. In essence, they were cowards as a group despite some really fierce warriors. As I got older, I realized that they were so outgunned from a technological, organizational and manpower standpoint, that they didn’t stand a chance. They had to more or less surrender. Even with those disadvantages, they still put up some serious fights.

No, they weren’t cowards. They fought even when they knew they would eventually lose.

Fast forward to today, a similar situation is happening. Except in this case, we’re the Indians, and we have the overwhelming advantage in technology, organization and, still, manpower. We could stop immigration and affirmative action tomorrow with the most minimal of effort. We could dramatically reduce crime among minorities (see the pre-1960s) with a bit more effort.

But do we. No. We’re too afraid of looking bad at a dinner party.

We are cowards, and unless we stand up, we deserve to fall.

Many HBDers comfort themselves with the fact that whites are smarter and bettered organized that NAMs. We created the modern world. All true. But look at us now. We’re like a guy who has amazing athletic skills, but is either too lazy or afraid of getting hurt to actually play the game hard or even at all. He lives off of his past glories. But he’s going to the lose this game, and he should.

“We are cowards, and unless we stand up, we deserve to fall.” Too true. If we won’t fight for the nation our forefathers built, then we deserve to lose it. I, too, have had the temerity to mention the existence of biological racial differences (skeletal ones; universally scientifically recognized) and received the shocked silence and uncomfortable looks of fellow Christian school moms. They’re terrified of letting reality intrude on their happy thoughts and lifestyle bubble. I don’t know exactly how much longer they’ll be able to run away from the country that liberalism and immigration has wrought, but it WILL catch up with them, to their shock and horror.